Preecemore Farm

We have a babbling brook, listed ancient woodland and orchards which we plan to replant as our poor trees are beyond pension age. We have the very best of sunrises and sunsets, well worth the walk to the top of the hill!

Livestock

The farm has a beef suckler herd with a Hereford Bull crossed onto continental cows. We produce prime beef for a high end supermarket.

We also have an approved quarantine unit to rear calves. Calves come in under special licence from dairy farms that are closed with TB, this alleviates the problem of them over stocking on source farms while ensuring high health standards are maintained. We undergo continual monitoring with frequent health and TB tests.

We have an automatic milk feeding machine for the calves which ensure each has a pre-programmed daily allowance at the right time, temperature and concentration. All very clever! It then gives us a list of any calves that have not fed, fed slowly, broken off or demonstrated diverse pattern of feeding.

Nothing will ever beat looking at each animal, each day to ensure basic husbandry needs are maintained. Mike who is the better stockman looks at the calves, then the machine. Fiona looks at machine then calves.

Crops

We produce forage crops for our own animals and also to sell to the equine trade. This requires very high standard of product, and anything that is not suitable for horses will go to the cows and beef animals. Nothing is ever wasted.

The fields are buzzing in the Spring/summer with production of silage, then haylage, then wrapped hay followed by conventional hay and if we are lucky a second cut!

We are FABBL approved.

Feed

We grow our own winter barley to grind and mix with other straights to produce feed for the calves and beef animals.